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1 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | stoneslinger | 205507 | ||
Just curious, what are your thoughts on the signifance of Jesus' first miracle; water to wine: wedding in cana? | ||||||
2 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205508 | ||
Dear stoneslinger, Well to start it was His first miracle, right? And we have Mary encouraging Him on there as a sort of catalyst with Jesus saying, woman, what does that have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come. But somehow Mary goes on ahead with a plan and tells the servants to be prepared to do whatever He would ask as if she had not heard Him. This is what they like to term as the beginning of Jesus minsitry and it is characterized by a miracle, which in itself is an interesting fact... Why start with this kind of miracle? Why not start with demon possesion instead? Or raising from the dead? Any of those would have made a bigger public entrance to His ministry. We can difintely say that turning the water into wine was a great sign signifying His deity. Interesting as well is that He called some disciples before performing this first miracle, or sign as John terms it. Although the first actual sign of Jesus diety is in the calling of Nathaneal where Jesus knows Nathaneal's business before being told and Nathaneal repplies, indeed you are the Son of God! So that makes it interesting that the commentators consider the water into wine as the first sign. Head scratcher... One thing that is significant here is that this is the first time for His disciples to really get a taste of the type of work He was going to go about doing. This is His first public miracle and it was on a large scale with plenty of witnesses. The fact that the headwaiter said of the wine that it was better wine; there were huge pots for purification of water, which had to do with mixing water with wine so the wine would not ferment, but this was not watered down water, it was pure wine, proving that it was not of the other batches sitting around. Jesus calls His mother woman distancing Himself from her being His mother in begninning this minstry of His... There is an allussion here to an OT prophecy that the Messianic age would be characterized by the free flowing of wine in, Jeremiah 31:12, Hosea 14:7, and Amos 9:13 so this event could be said to be in keeping with these prophecies... Hope this helped, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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3 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | flinkywood | 205510 | ||
Tamara, how do you conclude that Jesus is distancing Himself from from His mother? | ||||||
4 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205511 | ||
Dear Flinkywood, Quote; MacArthur Study Commentary, John MacArthur, pg.1353, par.3; 2:4 Woman. The term is not necessarily impolite, but it does have the effect of distancing Jesus from His mother and her request. Perhaps it was the equivalent of "ma'am" what does your conern have to do with Me? The expression, common in Semitic idiom (Jud.11:12. 2 Sam. 16:10), always distances the two parties, the speaker's tone conveying some degree of reproachapter Jesus tome was not rude, but abrupt. The phrase asks what is shared in common between parities. The thrust of Jesus' comment was that He had entered into a purpose for His mission onearth, so that He subordinated all activities to fulfillment of that mission. Mary had to recognize Him not so much as a son that she raised, but as the promised Messiah and Son of God. Hope this makes sense, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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5 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | stjohn | 205513 | ||
Hi Tamara: I don't disagree with the gist of what you're saying at all, but I personally don't see the use of "ma'am" in todays language as "necessarily" a way of distancing, but rather like "sir" is used as a show of respect. I suppose too, that it would depend entirely on the, tone, used, which is rather difficult to discern from the written word. Anyway, no matter. Just two cents: Sharing not arguing; I just thought sense I had, two cents, I'd pass some of it along. Very astute observation on Jesus' seeing Nathanael and knowing his thoughts! Who but God could do this? IMHO it was indeed a miraculous act, though not usually recognized as His first. Hmmm? Does make one wonder why so many have missed that! God bless John |
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6 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Val | 205517 | ||
Dear John, Do you think knowing what other people were thinking is considered a miracle. I remember that the Lord always knew what people had in their hearts. He said this about the religious leaders. Wasn't that part of Him being fully God that He knew people's hearts? Blessings, Val |
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7 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205518 | ||
Dear Val, I like your thinking there Val! You got me to thinking about what you are saying and asking here a bit. Jesus was fully God and fully man. Maybe every supernatural act He did from knowing what people thought to making wine was a miracle He was doing as fully God, while remaining fully human? Hope you don't mind I answered your note to John, it was just so profound what you said! God's Day To You, Tamara |
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8 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | stjohn | 205525 | ||
Hi Tam: Thanks, but I'd be hard put to think myself profound! lets take it a little farther for the sake of carrying this line of thought to it's furthest-:: What was Jesus' first miracle? Look at Gen 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." And the fact that, He spoke it all into existence, thus personifying Him; fully God and fully man. And compare to, John 1:1 | ||||||
9 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205526 | ||
Dear John, First of dear heart my brain is on bonk because I thought sure as sure I was repplying to Val!? oops my bad...:))))) Yup you are absolutely right about that John absolutely! Sometimes the simplest things become profound to those of us how divide a scripture until the whole thing is laying on the floor in pieces John! Oh I am laughing at myself again, I never take myself very seriously lest I actually think I have gotten somewheres..... Jesus whole existence is full of beginnings, isn't it? Genesis, pre Genesis, John 1, 2, 20, Acts 1, a whole lot more of em too I guess... Yeah I got to scratchin my head over MacArthur's use of a modern word and concept to describe a first century setting, kinda strange of him don't you think? I think you are dead on about that point there. Okay John so we won't call you profound, we will reserve that title for wonderful Val, okay? We will go back to calling you loquasious and eloquent in speech, how's that? By His Infinite Grace, Tamara |
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10 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | stjohn | 205531 | ||
Hi Tam: First off, you did send it to Val. I just jumped in cause there was a note to me, and besides this is a public forum so, anyone can answer anyone anytime they like. :-) Your brain is working fine! lol I'm gonna say I'd have to agree with you initially on all count's. I'm gonna reflect on for now though. Latter my Friend. John |
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